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ACHATES

Volume 1 · 63 words · 1778 Edition

the companion of Ennas, and his most faithful friend, celebrated in Virgil.

(Sil. Italicus); a river of Sicily, now the Drilis, (Cluverius); which runs from north to south, almost parallel with, and at no great distance from, the Gela; and rises in the north of the territory of Noto. It gave name to the Achates, or Agate, said to be first found there.